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Work o£ investigation has been done in various families of 

 flowering plants, especially Urticacese (Tropical African species) and 

 Rubiacese, also in several critical European genera and on the 

 Microfungi. 



Assistance has been given to numerous students engaged on 

 special investigations, and specimens and small collections have been 

 determined for students and collectors. 



Assistance has been rendered to various Government Departments 

 in response to inquiries on matters connected with the War. 



In connection with work done in the Department specimens have 

 been generously lent by the Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, 

 Kew ; the Regius Keeper of Botany, Edinburgh ; the Bristol 

 Museum ; and the Government of Jamaica. 



Undetermined material has been lent for study and determination 

 to the Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and to the 

 Regius Professor, Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh. 



III. — Departmental Library. 

 The arrangement, cataloguing, press-marking and other work has 

 been carried out. 30 volumes and 146 pamphlets have been acquired 

 by donation and 71 volumes by purchase — in all 101 volumes and 

 146 pamphlets ; these numbers include 15 periodicals in 118 parts 

 presented and 50 periodicals in 307 parts purchased — in all 65 

 periodicals in 425 parts. 



IV. — Publications. 



There have been no official publications issued by the Trustees, 

 but work has been continued on the Flora of Jamaica, by Mr. W. 

 Fawcett and Dr. Rendle, and on the second edition of Vol. I. of 

 the Monograph of British Lichens, by Miss A. Lorrain Smith. 



Various members of the staff assisted Mr. H. N. Ridley, C.M.G., 

 in his Report on the Botany of the Wollaston Expedition to Dutch 

 New Guinea which has been published in the Transactions of the 

 Linnean Society. 



Other publications by members of the staff issued by permission 

 of the Trustees number six, and six have been issued by other 

 students of the collections. 



V. — Acquisitions. 

 (1) By Donation. 



The following are the more important additions to the British 

 Herbarium : — Flowering Plants ; 64 Portfolios, estimated to contain 

 3,000 specimens, from R. S. Standen, Esq. ; 27 specimens from 

 G. C. Druce, Esq. ; 26 specimens from C. E. Salmon, Esq. ; 

 33 specimens from H. S. Thompson, Esq. 



Th*e following are the more important additions to the General 

 Herbarium : — Lt. A. Buchanan, 109 specimens from British East 

 Africa ; P. Amaury Talbot, Esq., 171 specimens from Degema, 

 S. Nigeria ; G. L. Bates, Esq., 254 specimens from West Tropical 



